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...momentum has changed so much since last fall that even Gore's gimmicks are working. Gore himself came up with the idea of having a real farmer guest-star at the Iowa debate. And his campaign decided that the best way to blunt Bradley's criticisms of him as an Establishment politician was to extend a hand to Bradley on national TV and challenge him to quit advertising and debate more instead. "A ploy," Bradley said disdainfully, and the pundits agreed. But at a time when television in Iowa and New Hampshire has become a wearying loop of campaign...
...themselves by claiming that the Confederate battle flag doesn't have anything to do with slavery and segregation! They say they're just trying to honor their 'Southern heritage' by flying it over the statehouse. Now, that's really STUPID! Everybody knows that until Martin Luther King Jr. came along, the so-called Southern Way of Life that the flag symbolizes was based on keeping black folks separate and unequal. Pretending otherwise is ridiculous...
DotComGuy is more modest about his life as a homebound professional consumer. The idea came to him last year when he found himself growing restless during a shopping trip with his parents. "I'm fed up with this," he told them. Hoping that people will "learn from my experience," he leads a rich, if isolated life, with regular visits from an aerobics trainer to keep him from physically merging with his couch (bought online, of course). "I was able to go shopping in bed last night," he says. How long voyeurs will be willing to log on and watch...
...this brisk evening, the Salt Lake County Adult Detention Complex is moonlighting as a bed-and-breakfast, offering citizens a one-time-only opportunity to experience punishment without crime. Price: $55 for adults, $30 for children. So just who came up with this screwy idea? Sheriff Aaron Kennard, who says with a missionary's zeal that the public needs to "see what my people are going through." His people are the 665 officers and civilians who will staff the $135 million facility when it opens to real criminals this week. But some of the sheriff's visitors have another goal...
...guests are a motley assortment. Two Mormon missionaries who work with prisoners wanted to experience life on the inside, and a postal worker and his wife came for what they insist is "the educational value...